On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> forwarded to the popcon-developers, just in case.
> 
> On Thursday 28 August 2008 01:15, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Holger Levsen writes ("Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if 
> this is right)"):
> > > I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right.
> > > Apologies for that.
> >
> > I don't think it is, probably.
> >
> > This is based on popcon data.  How does popcon read the dpkg
> > database ?  Does it just read /var/lib/dpkg/status ?
> 
> I assume not directly but with dpkg.

Precisely popularity contest use the output of
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status} ${package}\n'

However may be it does not check if dpkg-query return an error status.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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